[quote=tami]Went out this weekend and saw Coastrat and golfdad on Friday. They were buzzing round inside the Biloxi Channel giving rides to their peeps. We took Miz B out on a circumnav of Deer I and she got 15kt with jib and main on the reach from what was the high range back to Blx #2. At #2, we set the chute and did some jibing practice back into Deer.
Saturday blew harder and with only two on board, took a reef and proceeded to see 16.3kt, that is, with reefed main and jib. whoo hoo. Ederer and Holstead were out that day, too. Ederer told us he pitched twice getting from OSYC to Deer. After chatting with them, Jay and I went round to the Back Bay for a calmer anchorage. It was kewl being there -the fish and critters were fun to watch.
Sunday, NOAA was calling for 20kt to lay around noon to 10-15, so Jay and I toured round the Back Bay all the way to Popps Ferry. It occurred to us that the Back Bay would make a nice racecourse for the small cats, with lots of navigation challenges, but is very doable. In any case, we turned round and motored back toward home, but alas, the predictions were totally incorrect. The wind had instead picked up to around 23, so instead of setting cloth, we continued to motor after the bridges to go on home. It was everything our poor little 5hp OB could do to push us about a knot against the crap. Wow.
FWIW, NOAA isn't worth paying attention to. The past year or so they've been consistently wrong in their predictions, usually on the low side. We're finding that SailFlow is more accurate by far.[/quote]
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